User:Gerrymc1326/PATRICIA McKAY IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST.

'''PATRICIA McKAY. IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST'''

PATRICIA McKAY WAS 19yrs old when she was gunned down on the afternoon of 29th of September 1972 outside her home at Frere Street, Falls Road, Belfast, by 2 members of the 3rd Batt; The Royal Green Jackets who were hiding in a derelict house facing into the top of Frere Street. They did not issue a warning but opened fire and in the murderous hail of bullets she was hit 6 times in the back. She was removed to the Royal Victoria Hospital were the Surgeons and theatre staff battled in vain for hours to save her young life she died in the early hours of the 30th of September 1972, she had been married for just over 5 months.

Patricia, or Tricia as she was known to her friends was a Volunteer in the Official Irish Republican Army and a founding member of the Joe McKelvey Republican Club based in the Ross street/Raglan street area, Belfast and had previously been OC (Officer Commanding) of the Tom Williams Slua of Na Fianna Eriann, a Republican Scouting group based in the Divis Flats area of Belfast. She had also been a member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Assoc; attending many marches and pickets all over Ireland, she was also present at the ill fated march in Derry known as Bloody Sunday and witnessed the horrific events of that day. Patricia was a committed Irish Republican Socialist from an early age and believed the only way to solve Irelands problems was to break from the United Kingdom and form a 32 County Irish Socialist Republic, she hoped this would happen peacefully but as events unfolded in the North of Ireland and the British Government's total support for the Sectarian Orange State that was Northern Ireland was unabated, she reluctantly supported the use of physical force to remove the British and their cohorts from Ireland.